Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love.

When all around you are losing their heads, use Cosmic Ordering.

The earth is my home, the journey is my destination.

To the Son of God prayer was more important than the assembling of great throngs . . . He often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed [Luke 5:15–16].

I love a woman with a relaxed attitude.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

I guess that when you invade a nation of warlords, you end up having to deal with warlords.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.